Prélude et fugue et variation, Op. 18

3:45

BIOGRAPHY

Célimène is a name that evokes a character from the Misanthrope of Molière
Daudet ... like Alphonse?
Yes! For he is the great-great-uncle of Célimène Daudet.
With a surname and a first name in distant literary references,
Célimène has made the choice of music!

The pianist Célimène Daudet comes from two cultures, French and Haitian. She is a soloist whose playing and artistic commitment are recognized by the public and the international press. She has performed all over the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Philharmonie de Paris.

Her recordings, from Bach to Messiaen (at Arion and NoMadMusic music labels) are long-considered and unanimously acclaimed by the critics: A tribute to Bach, Bach’s Art of Fugue, Dans la malle du Poilu (works around the Great War), Beethoven’s Sonatas for piano and violin with Amanda Favier, Preludes by Debussy and Messiaen. Her new album “Messe Noire” has been released in March 2020 by NoMadMusic.

Her repertoire also includes the premiere of several works dedicated to her: most recently Nombres by Benoît Menut, Anima-Alias with live computer and breathing sensor by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and she will premiere in 2021 the concerto for piano and orchestra by Christian Rivet.

She has also collaborated for several years with the choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, with whom she has performed Bach’s The Art of Fugue more than a hundred times on stage.

She is the founder of the Haiti Piano Project launched in 2017 with the goal of bringing a grand piano to Haiti and creating the first International Piano Festival. This project has been widely covered by the press throughout the world.

Trained at the Superior National Conservatories of Music and Dance in Lyon and Paris, then at the Banff Centre in Canada, she was awarded several times, among wich, the International Pro Musicis Prize, the Jean Français piano prize and was named Artist Generation Spedidam. She has received the support of the Safran Foundation for Music and her career has been rewarded with the Senate medal. She has also been named as a Young Leader since 2018. Célimène is a Steinway Artist.